Late List

All the things I've wanted to post about the past week or so:

1. Happy Pi Day! 3-14 was national Pi Day. If you're not a math nerd, then you probably didn't celebrate this holiday. I did take pictures, just haven't had the chance to post them yet. I sent home a note to our parents asking for 15-20 pies to be donated for our events of the day. I ended up with 41 PIES! I'm not sure if I want to see a pie before next Pi Day! I convinced my entire team to participate in Pi Day and the kids seemed to enjoy it.
2. I spent last weekend in Asheville with Rena. It was great meeting her community of friends. It was great to see the Easter drama at West Asheville. It always moves me to tears and this year was no different. They "rock" out the last song too. I said to Rena afterwards "Not bad for a mostly white, Baptist church." I also had the opportunity to meet Rena's single guy friend, Adam. He and I have similar sense of humors and I had a good time getting to know him. I'm not sure if it was intentional for he and I to be the only single people or not. I also got wonderful hugs from Tony and Tammy. Tony told me that God was telling me to come home to West Asheville. Man, I love that church! It was a great weekend and much needed after some of the other events of that week.
3. Stephanie went to the middle school conference and had an encounter with a couple of my "boys" from Kings Mountain. She didn't realize it until after the session - which is probably pretty good for me. Who knows what kind of stories they may have told her!? She did agree with me that they are very good looking men! We might just have to invite them up to Lincolnton to help us implement the things they talked about in their session.
4. I've spent quite a bit of time being a psychologist in the past couple of weeks. I've been reading many books and trying to educate myself in several situations that my "counselees" are going through. The small taste of it makes me want to do it full time but then I have my REALLY loving teaching moments as well. I think I'll keep educating myself and see if I want school down the road.
5. I'm reading this amazing book called "The Shack" that I want all of you to read! It brings me great joy as a book and great conviction as a Christian. I'm going to do a post on some of the quotes from it later in the week.
6. We've had quite a few meetings at church this week. I feel that God is working through some of the challenges of our youth group. We're starting to come together and some of the tension is fading. We had a parent meeting this week as well that cleared the air for several people. The church as a whole makes my heart sad. I feel that we're too busy trying to implement programs and losing sight of the basics of the faith - prayer, Bible reading, evangelism...after being at West Asheville and coming back to Mountain View last Sunday moved me to tears - literally. To go from a very alive church to one that has so much underlying tension was enough to make me cry in my pew during prayer time. Pray for my church or for me to possibly find another church if that how God leads.
7. March Madness! I love this time of the year when I can watch basketball games from noon until after midnight if I so choose. The players are playing at a higher level too. They understand what Jimmy V used to say "Survive and move one." Everyone is fighting to keep their season alive for another day or week. Sadly my Blue Devils bowed out early again this year, but at least I won't have to go to school to hear about it next week. I love this time of year. I love yelling at players I didn't know existed to hang on for their last games. I love cheering against anyone who is playing Carolina. I love watching March Madness on TV!
8. My last entry - SPRING BREAK! I am spending Easter weekend here at Mom and Dad's house. I'll spend the early part of the week at home doing all the "normal" spring break things - dentist, doctor, eye doctor, oil change, etc. I'm not sure if I'll get my hair appointment in, but that can wait (just need to cover the gray). I'm hoping to catch up with a few friends in those few days I am home. The second half of the week I get to be Aunt Holly in Martinsburg. I'm going to baby-sit for a night and a day. Then I'm going to stay for a few days to visit and spend some time with Tim and family. I'm looking forward to it. I talked to Zeke and Jasmine on the phone the other night and was informed of everything I had to do with them when I get there. I love being Aunt Holly!

There are my entries of the past two weeks. I'm hoping to order a new computer soon and possibly get a higher speed Internet connection in the next few weeks. I'll definitely post more if these two things happen. I miss most of you reading this and would love to hear from you this week if you've got time! In case I don't get to post tomorrow, HAPPY EASTER!